Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Rising China and Governing Aspirations for Cultural Politics, Music, and Education
- 3 The Struggle for Cultural Identity, School Education, and Music Education in Hong Kong
- 4 Music Education in Taiwan: Imagining the Local, the National, and the Global
- 5 Music Teachers’ Perspectives on Cultural and National Values in School Music Education in Greater China
- 6 Discussion: Rethinking the Transmission of Values and Music Cultures between Nationalism and Globalization in Music Education in Greater China
- 7 Recapitulation and Conclusion
- Appendix: Teacher Questionnaire
- Index
7 - Recapitulation and Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 April 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Rising China and Governing Aspirations for Cultural Politics, Music, and Education
- 3 The Struggle for Cultural Identity, School Education, and Music Education in Hong Kong
- 4 Music Education in Taiwan: Imagining the Local, the National, and the Global
- 5 Music Teachers’ Perspectives on Cultural and National Values in School Music Education in Greater China
- 6 Discussion: Rethinking the Transmission of Values and Music Cultures between Nationalism and Globalization in Music Education in Greater China
- 7 Recapitulation and Conclusion
- Appendix: Teacher Questionnaire
- Index
Summary
Abstract
The study of school music education in Greater China further highlights the emergence of new tensions resulting from different musical experiences and types of music that are taught (or not) and whether they are highly valued or less valued with regard to cultural and national values. This concluding chapter focuses on the complex tensions between Western, Chinese, and Taiwanese identities as well as between the dynamics of local, national, and global identities in school music learning. It considers a number of complex issues that inform social transformations and cultural and national values in school education. Many aspects of social change, school music education, nationalism, and globalization are the same worldwide, while each country has individual and unique challenges to face and overcome.
Keywords: Western, Chinese, and Taiwanese identities, dynamics of local, national, and global identities, national and cultural values, school music learning, social transformations
China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan have long been crucibles for cross-cultural encounters between Chinese and Western cultures. They have different political ecologies (in terms of their relative levels of democracy), and Hong Kong and Taiwan have different relationships with China. These two factors have affected the meaning of ‘home country’ or ‘Chineseness’, and therefore the promotion of national identity and nationalism in education and music education are different in these three Chinese societies. The changes in the school music education systems of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong are a response to social transitions in Greater China in relation to development and governance across the region. These societies’ ‘Chineseness’ has been described as a potentially unifying regional identity that can be counterposed against Westernization. It should be noted that Hong Kong society was built on British foundations and adopted English and Western values, even though the locals are ethnic Chinese. Though Taiwan is significantly Chinese, Chinese nationalism in Taiwan continues to change, and school education has attempted to re-imagine Taiwan in a new context of Taiwanese consciousness and Taiwanese ethnicity in its semiotic dimension. Thus, the theme of ‘Greater China’ or ‘Chineseness’ in the imaginary region has been the dilemma in the possible discursive associations that arise from the continuing transformation of school music in response to the recent political and sociocultural developments in these three Chinese territories.
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- Globalization, Nationalism, and Music Education in the Twenty-First Century in Greater China , pp. 301 - 324Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2021